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Patent GB-2431854-A (GB)
Title: Automated carrier-based pest control system
Inventor: GREESON JOHN STUART
IPC: A01K13/00
Filed: 2007-02-08
Abstract: An automated carrier-based pest control system (10  is provided that includes a substantially automated sprayer (14). The system (10) also includes a container (16) in fluid communication with the substantially automated sprayer (14) for holding a mixture of carrier-based ingredients (38a,È), including one or more forms of wax, for discharge from the substantially automated sprayer (14). The system (10) also includes one or more discharge control units (18) operably connectable to the substantially automated sprayer (14) and to the container (16) for regulating discharge of the mixture of carrierbased ingredients (38a,b).
Patent GB-2446855-A (GB)
Title: Telescopic Ruler
Inventor: CHAMBERLAIN KENNETH MICHAEL
IPC: G01B3/08
Filed: 2007-02-14
Abstract: The ruler includes one part slidably supported relative to another part of the ruler. The parts may be secured at an extended length by means of a locking screw. The ruler may include a spirit level. The scale may be in metric units or Imperial units.
Patent GB-2435612-A (GB)
Title: Housing for movable audio visual unit
Inventor: SPINKS SIMON PAUL
IPC: A47B81/06
Filed: 2007-02-26
Abstract: An audio/visual housing 2 comprises a casing 4 capable of receiving an audio/visual unit 14, which may be a television screen or monitor, said unit being movable vertically relative to said casing between operative and inoperative positions, and a mechanism, see also figures 2-4, for effecting said movement said mechanism being located in such a way that the depth of said casing closely matches the depth of said unit. The unit may be located on a cross member 16 and is movable by means of one or more filling screw mechanisms which may be one or more electrically driven leadscrews 26 located generally in the same plane of movement of said audio/ visual unit. The housing may be integrated with the footboard of a bed so that in the stored position said unit is contained, out of sight, within the footboard.
Patent GB-2443534-A (GB)
Title: Turbofan engine
Inventor: ORLANDO ROBERT JOSEPH
IPC: F01D25/16
Filed: 2007-10-29
Abstract: A turbofan engine 10 includes a core gas turbine engine 12 including a high-pressure compressor 18, a combustor 20 and a high- pressure turbine. A booster compressor 30 is upstream from the core engine as is a counter-rotating fan assembly 16, including a first fan 50 to rotate in a first direction and a second fan 52 to rotate in an opposite second direction. An intermediate-pressure turbine 32 (e.g. a single stage turbine) downstream from the core engine drives the booster compressor and the second fan. There may be direct drive of the booster by the intermediate turbine but the second fan may be driven via a planetary gearbox 100 such that the first fan, directly driven by a low pressure turbine 14, rotates between 0.67 and twice as fast as the second fan. There are thrust bearings between the first fan and low pressure turbine and between the second fan and fan frame.
Patent GB-2443963-A (GB)
Title: Transit and display container
Inventor: WONNACOTT ROGER JOSEPH
IPC: B65D5/02
Filed: 2007-11-16
Abstract: The container is made from a tubular blank comprising, in series, front panel 1, top panel 2, rear panel 3, base panel 4 and an overlapping U-shaped panel portion 5 designed to overlap the front panel. The panels have flaps 12 to 15 depending there from, which when the blank is erected form the sides of a closed carton. The front panel 1 is kept in its erected position thanks to detachable ear flaps 7 which are attached to the side walls, with glue or adhesive. The container has a detachable portion, which can be torn away for display purposes. The detachable portion comprises the whole of the front panel and a large portion of the top panel, and detachment is facilitated by the provision of hole 6 and tab 20 which can be manipulated for tearing the detachable portion along the score lines which extend on both side of the tab 20 to the end of the hinge lines that connect the front panel to the ear flaps 7.
Patent GB-2446255-A (GB)
Title: A cast crossmember centre section
Inventor: SINGH NIRANJAN
IPC: B62D21/02
Filed: 2008-01-10
Abstract: A centre section 21 for a crossmember 20 of a vehicle chassis comprises a driveshaft hoop 24, crossmember attachment areas 23 extending generally from opposing sides thereof and trailing arm mounts 25 on either side of the driveshaft hoop 24 for attachment of one or more trailing arms to the centre section 21. The crossmember attachment areas 23 have heights that allow attachment of crossmember portions 22 to the centre section 21 at offset heights.
Patent GB-2457251-A (GB)
Title: Smoke alarm with timer to detect smoke only during specific hours of the day
Inventor: MACEFIELD RITCHIE COLIN PETER
IPC: G08B17/10
Filed: 2008-02-06
Abstract: A self contained, battery operated, residential smoke alarms already is fitted with a 24 hour timer. The timer enables the alarm to operate in either a permanently "on" mode or allows the user to set the alarm to detect smoke only within specific hours of the day.
Patent GB-2451308-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and Method for Dispersing Frost and Fog
Inventor: ALLEN MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: A01G13/06
Filed: 2008-02-13
Abstract: Apparatus 1 for raising the temperature of air in an environment comprises a heater 7, a mixing chamber 6, an ambient air fan 4 and at least one vortex generating element (10, fig 3e). The heater heats ambient air and delivers it to the mixing chamber were it is subsequently mixed with ambient air supplied by the ambient air fan. The mixing chamber includes at least one outlet with which the at least one vortex generating elements is associated with for distribution of the warmed air. The apparatus can be mounted on a wheeled platform with another identical apparatus in a side by side configuration (Fig 2). The apparatus can be used to disperse fog, defrost articles and help prevent crop damage of crops.
Patent GB-2460462-A (GB)
Title: Method for loading software components into RAM by modifying the software part to be loaded based on the memory location to be used.
IPC: G06F12/02
Filed: 2008-05-30
Abstract: Disclosed is a method for loading software into RAM. The software is stored in paged form on a storage medium. When a part of the software to be loaded is required the memory management system loads the components by finding a location in RAM into which software can be placed. The part to be loaded is modified according to the location found in the RAM, and then loaded into the RAM. The software may be modified by updating memory pointers in the components. The software may be demand paged into RAM, with the demand being generated by a thread attempting to access the page and thus generating page fault. The pages may be loaded into the RAM as a cache in a FIFO basis. The cache may be a two level cache, with the size of the two parts maintained at a fixed ratio.
Patent GB-2450266-A (GB)
Title: Method and system of controlling drilling direction using directionally sensitive resistivity readings
Inventor: BITTAR MICHAEL S
IPC: E21B7/04
Filed: 2007-03-05
Abstract: A method and system of controlling drilling direction using directionally sensitive resistivity readings. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising transmitting an interrogating electromagnetic wave from a tool in a borehole into a formation surrounding the borehole, receiving a first responsive electromagnetic wave from the formation by a first receiving antenna having a sensitivity pattern with a single primary lobe, determining proximity of a bed boundary using the first responsive electromagnetic wave, and controlling drilling direction based on the proximity of the bed boundary.
Patent GB-2450649-A (GB)
Title: Floor drain
Inventor: MCALPINE JAMES EDWARD
IPC: E03F5/04
Filed: 2007-03-22
Abstract: A floor drain is described. The floor drain comprises a body having a primary inlet, a secondary inlet and an outlet. In use the primary inlet is located at floor-level and the secondary inlet and the outlet are located sub floor-level. The body is configured to allow isolation of the primary inlet from the secondary inlet and the outlet by a water seal.
Patent GB-2466989-A (GB)
Title: A hot food storage unit
Inventor: STEWART KENNETH THOMAS
IPC: A47F3/00
Filed: 2009-01-19
Abstract: A hot food storage unit comprises a cabinet 3 having a food storage compartment 5, a heating compartment 7, a transparent display shield 9 covering the food in the food storage compartment and an opening 11 in the display shield adjacent to the rear of the cabinet to allow access to the food in the food storage compartment. The hot food storage unit has a pair of primary heating units 30 each comprising a tangential fan 19 and a heating coil and a secondary heating unit mounted intermediate the primary heating units. The secondary heating unit includes an evaporator. In this way, the compact unit is able to provide relatively uniform heat distribution throughout the food storage compartment with different amounts of moisture in different areas of the cabinet. This is achieved without extensive partitioning in the food storage compartment.
Patent GB-2456929-A (GB)
Title: Synchronization
Inventor: HUOTARI ARTO
IPC: H04B7/212
Filed: 2007-08-24
Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided, the apparatus comprising a correlator (700) configured to correlate samples of a frame format signal with a reference signal; an adder block (702) configured to sum the correlation results over a given time period; a comparator (704) configured to compare the sum with a given reference value; a controller (706) configured, if the sum exceeds the reference value, to make the decision that a frequency correction channel has been detected, store the position of the frequency cor- rection channel in the frame format signal and cease the correlation process; and otherwise configured to control the correlation and comparison to continue until the time reserved for the correlation process ends, to retain the value in the adder block; and to control the apparatus to resume the above process when a new time reserved for the correlation process is due.
Patent GB-2459607-A (GB)
Title: Multi wheeled single track vehicle
Inventor: PARSONS JONATHAN MARK
IPC: B62K5/02
Filed: 2008-01-15
Abstract: A multi wheeled single track vehicle comprising of three or more wheels in a line, where two or more wheels are steered by an amount to enable the vehicle to follow a single track. Two or more wheels of the wheels are driven by a transmission comprising a chain and sprocket for drive from the engine to one wheel and another chain and sprocket for drive from one wheel to another. Suspension is provided for each wheel by a pair of equal, or near equal length of swinging arms, one above the other, (upper swinging arm and lower swinging arm) where both arms are positioned with the wheel end pivot axis above the wheel axle, and the motorcycle frame pivot axis above the final drive engine sprocket axis, with a spring damper (shock absorber) positioned between upper and lower swinging arms and a wheel axle support strut supporting the wheel axle.
Patent GB-2471346-A (GB)
Title: Elongate through holes for electronic device case to mitigate against electrostatic discharge
Inventor: LIN JYUAN-DA
IPC: H05K9/00
Filed: 2009-09-11
Abstract: Electronic components within a device having a case 10 or housing 10 that has through-holes 11 (11a-c) which mitigate against external electrostatic discharge (ESD) 200 by ensuring that the length and shape of the through-hole 11 is equal to or greater in length than the length of a possible electric arc produced as a result of a possible electrostatic discharge. Thus such a through-hole corresponding in position to an electronic component 12 and communicating with the outside will help prevent electric arcs from reaching the electronic component. The holes may have one step 11 or many (fig 3b) or may be slanted (fig 2) or curved (fig 3a).
Patent GB-2460201-A (GB)
Title: User programmable call progress tone detection
Inventor: FLETCHER RONALD LEE
IPC: H04M3/51
Filed: 2008-03-11
Abstract: A telecommunications system is disclosed that enables a telecommunications switch to be "user" programmable in the "field" - in contrast to only programmable by the manufacturer or third-party software company - with audio samples. Each audio sample is exemplar of a sound that might be encountered during or after the establishment of a telecommunications call that is handled by the telecommunications switch. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, the audio samples are received by the telecommunications switch through one or more of the same ports that the telecommunications switch uses to route calls, in contrast to programs and program data that are received by the telecommunications switch through a programming port.
Patent GB-2469697-A (GB)
Title: A rotating device including a rotating shaft and a self-lubricating bearing
Inventor: HONG YIN-RONG
IPC: F16C33/10
Filed: 2009-10-01
Abstract: A rotating device 2 comprises a rotating shaft 21, and a self-lubricating bearing 22, the self-lubricating bearing 22 having an inner peripheral surface formed with a plurality of inclined grooves 23. Each of the inclined grooves 23 has top and bottom ends 231, 232, and extends downwardly from the top end 231 to the bottom end 232. The inner peripheral surface of the bearing 22 has two outwardly diverging ends 223, 224 for preventing splashing of the lubricating oil from the top and bottom ends 231, 232 of the inclined grooves 23 during rotation of the rotating shaft 21.
Patent GB-2475834-A (GB)
Title: Handover method in media independent handover based on geographical location
Inventor: KHANDELIA ANKUR
IPC: H04W36/00
Filed: 2009-11-26
Abstract: There is discussed a mobile communication device having means for monitoring its geographical position and a database storing data associating a plurality of geographical locations with respective wireless communication networks. During a handover operation, the mobile communication device calculates if the current geographical position satisfies a proximity criterion to one of the plurality of geographical locations, and if it does initiates handover of a communication link to an access point to the wireless communication network associated with that geographical location. By storing data associating such geographical locations with respective wireless communication networks, it is not necessary to query for available networks and therefore the handover operation is facilitated and the amount of network signalling is reduced. The database also stores one or more time durations associated with previous handover operations. The mobile communication device calculates a time interval associated with a handover operation using said stored time durations, estimates a geographical position where the mobile communication device will be after said calculated time interval has passed using the geographical position of the mobile communication device as determined at two or more different timings and sends to a remote network device a message specifying the estimated geographical position and requesting information on access points associated with the estimated geographical position. By using such an estimated geographical position, it is more likely that the list of networks provided by the network will be relevant when handover actually takes place. The application lies in media independent handover (MIH) of the IEEE 802.21 specification.
Patent GB-964741-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to temperature indicating devices
Inventor: MURDEN PETER
IPC: G21C17/112
Filed: 1962-03-15
Abstract: 964,741. Measuring temperature electrically. PYE Ltd. Feb. 26, 1963 [March 15, 1962], No. 10002/62. Heading G1N. [Also in Division H1] A temperature indicating device comprises a quartz crystal X having a steep frequency/temperature characteristic, the crystal being coupled through a coaxial cable L1 to the circuit of an oscillator, and forming with the coupling an inte- ' gral part of the oscillator, the crystal being adapted for insertion in a chamber whose temperature is to be measured while the oscillator is mainly outside the chamber, and the cable L1 being an odd multiple of a quarter wavelength of the mean oscillator frequency. The crystal may be housed in a stainless steel envelope formed integrally with the outer sheath of the cable, or in a helium-filled heat resistant glass envelope. A frequency meter calibrated in terms of temperature is connected to capacitor C5. Meter M monitors the state of the oscillator. The crystal is preferably Y cut, and is freed from alkali metal ions so that it can oscillate at above 200‹C.
Patent GB-930033-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods of delustering threads of synthetic material
IPC: D06C29/00
Filed: 1961-03-21
Abstract: 930,033. Spinning and finishing yarns. A. J. TLAMICHA. March 21, 1961 [March 25, 1960], No. 10167/61. Addition to 886,032. Class 120 (3). In a method of delustring a monofilament of synthetic material of high molecular weight e.g. a polyamide, wherein the monofilament is guided obliquely over a rotating roughening body the peripheral speed of which differs from the speed of drawing-off of the filament and is adjustable, as described in the parent Specification, the monofilament is sprinkled with water or steam while it is in contact with the body. The treatment is stated to reduce friction heating and prevent blockage of the pores of the body by abraded dust, so that the delustring effect is uniform throughout the length of the filament.
Patent GB-326049-A (GB)
Title: Friction clutches
IPC: F16D13/68
Filed: 1929-04-02
Abstract: 326,049. Hardy, Spicer, & Co., Ltd., and Daniell, J. A. April 2, 1929. Clutches, friction; universal joints.-In a plate clutch, the frictionally engaged annulus is flexibly and detachably connected to its centre piece. In the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a metal annulus 10 which carries the friction material 11 is bolted to a plate 12 which has radially-disposed arms 13 alternating with similar arms 8 on a plate 6, the annular portion of which is detachably secured to a flange on the splined driven sleeve 2. The flange may have a shoulder 5 and the plates 10 and 12 may be in spigotal engagement. The radial width of the rings 11 is less than that of the rings 10, thus leaving an annular gap for the bolt-heads 15. The arms 8 and 13 are riveted to a non-metallic flexible annulus 9 preferably of textile fabric, the threads of one layer being at an angle to those of the next. Unnecessary parts of this annulus may be cut away for lightness. In order to support the annulus, smaller plates 16, 17 of similar shape to the radial arms are arranged on each side of it. In a modification, rivets replace the bolts 7 and 15.
Patent GB-1516043-A (GB)
Title: Brake control device
IPC: B60T13/16
Filed: 1976-03-15
Abstract: 1516043 Anti-skid vehicle braking systems AISIN SEIKI KK 15 March 1976 [13 March 1975] 10214/76 Heading F2F An anti-skid hydraulic brake system, as described operating only on the rear wheels 3, has a first circuit through which pressure is applied from a master cylinder 1 along line 6 to the inlet 15 of a control valve comprising a ball 25 between a control piston 29, 30 and a spring-loaded plunger 60. Initially the ball 25 is in the dotted line position, allowing free communication of fluid to the brake line 7. Hydraulic pressure is also applied in a second circuit from a pump 8, through a power booster 9, along line 41 to the inlet 34 of a modulator 4. The modulator 4 comprises a piston 31 which is moved to the left with the control valve seats 26, 27 by hydraulic pressure in the control valve chamber so that with increasing brake pressure, pressure is applied through groove 62 and bore 66 to urge the piston 29, 30 and hence the ball 25 to the right to close the valve 25 to inlet pressure. However, pressure from within the modulator 4 is also transmitted through lines 45, 47 to a control chamber 23 which keeps open a by-pass valve 17.  Skid conditions are detected by sensors 13, and result in electromagnetic valve 54 moving to a throttling position and in valve 55 dumping the control valve pressure into a sink 12, so closing the valve 17 and increasing the volume of the chamber 21 to reduce the brake pressure. The valve 54 may be retained in the throttled position when the skid signal terminates so producing a gradual increase in brake pressure. In the event of power failure, the two valves 25, 17 remain in their dotted line positions and master cylinder pressure is applied via the valve 25 to the wheels 3. The pressure on line 41 is also transmitted via a throttle formed by the lands between the piston 31 and body 33, to an outlet 35 and hence to an auxiliary such as a power steering apparatus 11.
Patent GB-235995-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for economising fuel
IPC: F24B1/193
Filed: 1924-04-25
Abstract: 235,995. Acock, R. April 25, 1924. Fuel - economizers; combined solid - fuel and gas stoves; lighting fires. - A fueleconomizer of the type comprising a perforated chamber a to which air is supplied and which stands on the grate is provided with an induction tube b through which the air passes to the upper part of the chamber. In the construction shown in Fig. 3 the tube b is formed with a flange a<2> fitting the inner wall of the chamber a and having air-supplying perforations a<4>. The induction tube and chamber may be bolted together, or both may stand on a separate base-plate. The top of the tube b may be closed and provided with nozzles or perforations through which the air is supplied. The chamber b may, as shown in Fig. 7, be provided with an overhanging top with perforations a<5> through which the air issues downwardly into the fuel; there may also be an auxiliary chamber a<6> to supply air to the gases above the fuel, the front portion a<9> of which may be hinged to allow foreign matter to be removed from the interior. Gas or other suitable fuel, such as vaporized oil, may be supplied to the interior of the chamber to heat the air and to enable the device to serve as a fire-lighter, Figs. 9, 10, and 11 showing various devices associated with the air-induction tube for this purpose. In the form shown in Fig. 9, gas is supplied by a pipe c<4> to an annular jacket formed around the induction tube, the outer wall of the jacket being perforated. In other forms vertical perforated gas tubes d, Fig. 10, or a coiled tube e, Fig. 11, arranged round the induction tube are employed.